Hey Monklish, if the Stones play, why do you put Kings of Leon as a headliner above more deserving acts like Beastie Boys, Daft Punk, or Neil Young? Kings of Leon don't have to headline to sell tickets.

Roo had the Black Keys and the Flaming Lips playing during their (KOL) headlining set...GV knows how many people feel about the band as well, it'll just give us a chance to explore the outer realms which is generally the best part! One shitty headliner is welcome...

Fuck having hip hop at Coachella. Unless it's something legit like The Roots or J Dilla, Coachella always has and always will do just fine without catering to that shit. The best thing about Jay-Z last year was that Deadmau5 was less crowded, and that there was no line for the shower.

LOL @the guy who asked for J. Dilla, you do know he's dead right? You want them to have J. Dilla's ghost? Shows how little you know about hip-hop... what you watch the Jimmy Fallon show so you know who the roots are? LOL... Jay-Z, P.O.S., Lupe Fiasco, De La Soul, Atmosphere, Murs & 9th Wonder (people they've had recently)... very "legit" take it from someone who knows a thing or two about the genre...

"Roo had the Black Keys and the Flaming Lips playing during their (KOL) headlining set..."

Incorrect, they both played after Kings of leons headlining set... Flaming lips played the same stage as KOL

Also I wonder how many of you KOL haters were soooooo excited kings of leon were going to be there in 07, but now that they have mainstream popularity its not cool to say that anymore so you bash? I remember that year EVERYONE was telling me Kings of leon was the band to see...where did all those fans go?

I don't hate KoL due to their mainstream success. Good for them, they can play their fucking songs for assloads of our cash. That's the WHOLE point of forming a fucking rock band. The reason I can't stand them is because they are fucking BORING (not to say JJ was entertaining in 2008). I've seen KoL at 3 different fests, every show being more boring than the last. Hopefully we will have a repeat of Outside Lands and Empire of the Sun will play the Sahara that night. And if the Beasties play prior to KoL, my day won't be a total waste.

And another thing, Arcade Fire is not going to subhead. They're about 100 times bigger, more important and more enjoyable the KoL....if they sub, the fucking Velvet Underground, Talking Heads, Led Zeppelin, Outkast or (dare I say it), Radiohead and Bowie better be there. Even though they WON'T be.

Yeah I guess your right cause it was right after les claypool. I remember many people bitching about the fact KOL was headlining while waiting at the which stage for the lips to start. So Roo fucked that up i guess, Chella will have plenty going on during their set so who really cares.

They peaked with Aha Shake Heartbreak. Every album, including the one that followed Aha, Because of the Times, has been an attempt to become the next U2.

However, instead of relying on actual artistic, creative, resourceful ability, they've relied on cheesy hooks to get as much radio play as humanly possible (see Sex On Fire).

They've literally sold out a little more with each and every album since Aha. The production is much slicker, and not in a good way. Along with their rise to fame they've advocated every single drug known to man, perhaps with the exceptions of Heroin and DMT. This is both irresponsible, and totally cliched. Do we really need any more 15 year olds walking around completely fried on prescription painkillers? They lie about other things in interviews (like they're talent) so why can't they lie about their rampant drug use?

They've also let fame go completely to their heads. you can tell, just watch any interview with them post-Aha, they come off as completely self absorbed and really just make fools of themselves.

They're probably as over saturated as any of the Biebers, Ga Ga/s, and Perrys of the world, and their music is just as good. They said they didn't want to be the 'good looking brothers from Southern America' but it seems to me that's exactly what they're resting on these days.

And really.....would Sex on Fire be as big as it is if it didn't have the word 'sex' in it? you honestly think it would??? Total record executive ceo marketing demographic bullshit. Sell outs.

Kings of Leon would be such a lazy and unfortunate choice for GV. Smart, yes, because it'll bring back all the Jack Johnson fans from 3 years ago, tweens =cash, but tweens + festival dominated by 20, 30 somethings who are drinking, smoking, and ala in all, come to the festival to be away from the rest of society don't appreciate the booking of a band that brings society only for the sake of deeper pockets.

There are advantages to having a band you don't like headline. Sometimes they hit the midnight curfew and get the plug pulled on them 10 minutes later. Believe me, even if Roger Daltry or Ian Curtis were up there singing, they have very little wiggle room with stuff like that. Also, you can beat the crowd out of the grounds a little early. Cheers!

not to play spoiler to whatever bullshit insight monklish will have into the website issue, but this happens every year. if run a website that will probably get tens to hundreds of thousands of hits in a span of a few hours, you make preparations. you nove your DBs to different servers with more structure for the upcoming needed bandwidth. this takes time for everything to catch up. you don't do this the night or day before you plan the needed upgrades in bandwidth. you do it weeks before. so they probably are just having their website moved so that it doesn't crash in 1 or 2 weeks when they release the lineup. then after all the commotion dies down after the festival, you move it back to a cheaper less bandwidth heavy server.

If you all think Daft Punk and Beastie Boys are gonna be on the bill alongside Arcade Fire, KoL, and as Monk says, the Rolling Stones, then you are all sadly mistaken. I can assure you Monk is going down in flames because Daft, the Stones, and the Beastie Boys will not be there. You've been warned.

Killers are pretty well-known for an energetic show, though. Kings of Leon have never been known for that so I doubt it would change. Aha Shake Heartbreak was a fun album, though. And Youth and Young Manhood has an intriguing name. It's a shame they've lost touch with that and decided to be so awful in the last 4 years. I attempted to listen to that new album. They're like Creed meets the south at this point.

why exactly would KOL headline over the storkes?? they were one of the biggest bands around last time they dropped an album. plus don't they have enough material to fill a headliner spot. I would say the strokes are a lot closer to the Killers headling spot than KOL is. how basass would it be is Queens of the Stone Age played and then the Strokes and maybe a badass dj closing out saturday night.

And copying your predecessors is pretty huge now. Check out Viva La Vida. How many pages did they rip directly out of My Bloody Valentine's playbook and exploit for all the uncultured kids who have never heard of MBV and will never get around to it.

Foo Fighters would have been a far better choice for mainstream act of 2011. They are an everyman band who could bring that same target audience and many more. Plus there is a lot of buzz surrounding their new album since Dave recorded with Butch Vig, the producer of "Nevermind". But, KOL have been doing stadium shows over the past few years and Foo's last outings were generally housed in pavillion venues. Even then, I'd much rather see Dave Ghrol up there then the god damned followill bunch.

Royksopp just released West Coast tour dates & they're playing in L.A. on March 29th btw...could definitely mean they might be stickin' around the area for a Coacheezie appearance. or one can hope anyway! eh fuck it, I'll just go to their L.A. show regardless!

People were happy about KoL in 07 because they weren't headliners. It's fine that they had mainstream success but it doesn't mean we have to be happy they are headlining. If they subbed (which from what I understand they kind of are) people wouldn't have much of a problem. It's just a matter of where they are on the poster.

Nobody knows exactly what the lineup is except GV. But from what I understand the favorites are:

Fri - Arcade Fire / Neil YoungSat - Kings of Leon / Daft Punk

Sun - The Strokes are subheadlining, but we don't really know who the headliner is. Favorites are The Rolling Stones or The White Stripes, with maybe Coldplay as the outlier.

People were happy about KoL in 07 because they weren't headliners. It's fine that they had mainstream success but it doesn't mean we have to be happy they are headlining. If they subbed (which from what I understand they kind of are) people wouldn't have much of a problem. It's just a matter of where they are on the poster.

Nobody knows exactly what the lineup is except GV. But from what I understand the favorites are:

Fri - Arcade Fire / Neil YoungSat - Kings of Leon / Daft Punk

Sun - The Strokes are subheadlining, but we don't really know who the headliner is. Favorites are The Rolling Stones or The White Stripes, with maybe Coldplay as the outlier.

Does anyone wonder what the Coachella Board regulars were doing with their lives during the 45 minutes or so the site was down? Here's hoping they managed to cross something off their bucket lists before it came back up.

just cleaned my "woodgrain" Illadelph bong w/ disc perc ashcatcher. damn this thing is beautiful and it smokes so good. Anyone else chiefin on a Illa? I know theres some of my medicated SoCal buddys on here. fuck the lineup lets get high till GV does something. just got some good White Diamond Kush and Moonwalker from the pharmacy. the rest of you that dont have access to a pharmacy commence being jealous.

miss what point? the point that everyone on here talks shit or the where everyone bitches about the line or how it hasn't come out yet? my point is that everyone on here needs to chill out and smoke some bud. try to remember why you love coachella so much.

dam hipsters get over it...who cares if the kol play..u dont need to watch...You ain't artsier than meCause you got sideburns and a vintage teeI said you ain't artiser than meCause you pluck a guitar, that ain't fuckin bizarreYou ain't artsier than meCause you live in Los Feliz, bitch you ain't JesusYou ain't artsier than meI got a colorful vocab, watch the low jab..You ain't artsier than meCause you chop up breaks and you dig in the cratesYou ain't artsier than meYou just a trendy lesbian, dreadlock thespianYou ain't artsier than meCause you make weed brownies and knit wool hatsYou ain't artsier than meYou pseudo-elitest old-school sap...the grouch :)

You ain't artsier than meCause you got sideburns and a vintage teeI said you ain't artiser than meCause you pluck a guitar, that ain't fuckin bizarreYou ain't artsier than meCause you live in Los Feliz, bitch you ain't JesusYou ain't artsier than meI got a colorful vocab, watch the low jab

So what you're vegan?It shows in your presence, you be geekin'And you been seekin' the same lightSpeakin' of game like the enemy, hang tightI got a tail about 6 foot 1 by infinityFull of sun, rain & potential energyAll you saw were the K-SwissClean, crisp, creased jeans means thisSo you thought and dippedMy walks hip, thoughts; hipperUnzip the zipperNo I don't wear hemp or drink liquorAnd that don't make me the man, just a little bit sickerSpit kicker with an eye for the big dipperFrom an island cliff emerges a loud whisperAnd I'm proud of this, it's my artYou doin yoga just to look the part.

You ain't artsier than meCause you chop up breaks and you dig in the cratesYou ain't artsier than meYou just a trendy lesbian, dreadlock thespianYou ain't artsier than meCause you make weed brownies and knit wool hatsYou ain't artsier than meYou pseudo-elitest old-school sapdam hipsters

No Swedish House Mafia!!! FML. And fuck y'all that don't like them. They had a MONSTER year and deserve to be there. Last years EDM tent was by far the best tent of the Festival. HOUSE MUSIC is taking over.

@ anon 425 shit why chill at my place when we can party at your place in Newport? have you ever been to One World on newport ave.? thats actually where i purchased my Illa ashcatcher. they have a great selection too.

a hipster is a person that wears vintage clothes, rayband sunglasses, lives in low income housing usually in old mexican communities, does all the tendy stuff, most think they are djs or pretend to be in a band, buy up all the vintage records, whatever is trendy at that moment in time. All because they think they are cool by doing it. in other words lame ass people that cant think for themselves and are all followers.

@SmokinBuddy- I work in Newport silly lol, but yeah I've seen it haven't been in for awhile tho. Also I CANT WAIT for the annoucements!!!! I would love to see:Headliners:RadioheadRolling StonesDaft PunkOh and can we through inStS9, &LOTS of Electronica: )!!!

You know...what's NOT mainstream, IS kinda mainstream these days...it's a bullshit paradox we are trapped in! like the movie groundhog day, the only difference is the third twin wakes bill murray up every morning instead of the beach boys...

@ anon 450 then ya we should meet up and smoke sometime soon. I like your headliner picks, thats my coachella wish list too. maybe add in some ghostland observatory! hit me up @ smokinbuddy4coachella@yahoo.com and we can exchange info.

^ Why are people on here so uninformed about Coachella??? No one has ever headlined Coachella TWICE??? ARe u for real? The Cure TWICE (once in 04 and once in 06). TOOL did it TWICE (once in 1999 at the first festival and once in 2006). Chili Peppers did it TWICE (once in 03 and once in 07). RAge did it in 99 and 07. Bjork in 02 and 07. and then Sahara headliners always repeat (Prodigy, Underworld, Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, Kraftwerk).

the third twin is daft punk, proof? no one else stepping up and claiming amazing music that is being called daft punks. I mean come on if you were a dj and everyone thought the biggest electronic act in the world had made it not you wouldn't you want some credit. thus proving the whole story about how it was the actual music for the tron movie but disney being disney rejected it so they could fit in more orchestral music. One of the songs is called justice. And the name suggests that it is a Daft Punk side project. Can you imagine what Tron would have been like if you added those 12 tracks + the few good ones they did put on the soundtrack.

and who cares what they call it. its a new album from the master minds behind DP. great music no matter what name. Plus their whole thing about not wanting to use their faces so no one knows them thus making it more about the music. Now they are doing it again as TTT. and they leaked their album back in 05' before it got released. And Disney wants money if they try to perform under the name DP. come on its so obvious.

man and daft punk only says that they (daft punk) are not playing that festival in spain but they never said they are not the third twin or that they will not be performing under the name the third twin. maybe thats what we can expect for coachella.